Thursday

28th December - Law News

2196th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Focus Video Story: Actress Priyanka Chopra, one of India’s most successful actresses, who has also made a mark on the international entertainment industry, delivered the Penguin Annual Lecture 2017.

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Wednesday

27th December - Law News

2195th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's Focus Video Story: More than nine thousand people won’t be ‘going home for Christmas’. Instead they’ll be waking up in cars and tents, or on buses and trains. The figure comes from the homeless charity Crisis, which says many people miss out on help because they are not spotted sleeping on the streets.


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Tuesday

26th December - Law News

2194th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Season's Greeting to all our readers!


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Monday

25th December - Law News

2193rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Season's Greeting to all our readers!



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Sunday

24th December - Law News

2192nd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Season's Greeting to all our readers!

Today's video story: Young people who become homeless often find themselves in a chain of misfortune, forced into unsafe situations with little help from the state. Thomas Korpiela, Ann O'Shea, Kirk Rogers and Brookemorgan Henry-Rennie share their experiences of dealing with mental health issues and surviving on the streets. They describe how the charities Depaul and Centrepoint helped them get their lives back on track.


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Saturday

23rd December - Law News

2191st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: There have been sharp rises in the value of cryptocurrencies, this year. But their falls have also been spectacular. The price of Bitcoin has dropped to below the 13,000-dollar threshold, after hitting all-time-highs of more than 20,000 over the weekend.

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Friday

22nd December - Law News

2190th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Peru’s President Pablo Kuczynski faces the toughest moment yet in his short presidency. After just 17 months in office, on Thursday he will answer to allegations of graft in dealings with the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. The so-called Car Wash corruption scandal in Brazil has affected many countries in the Americas, but now the case has turned into a political witch hunt in Peru.

Focus of the day story: Companies 'needlessly' de-risking over sanctions and money-laundering. In some cases, re-risking can be more risky, according to global advisory group. Full story: The Global Legal Post

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Thursday

21st December - Law News

2189th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: MPs have branded homelessness "a national crisis", condemning the government for its "unacceptably complacent" response. A damning report by the cross-party public accounts committee says the number of people sleeping rough has soared 134% since 2011, describing the government's efforts to eliminate rough sleeping as the '"tip of the iceberg". Ministers insist they're providing more than a billion pounds to reduce all forms of homelessness by 2020. In the latest in our week-long series on the issue, we have been talking to homeless people in Liverpool and Manchester to see what support is being offered to people with nowhere else to go.

Focus of the day story: Lawyers from different parts of the profession have warned rule-makers to be cautious about any attempts to impose mediation on parties, and warned against punishing those who opt not to mediate. Responses from both the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and the City of London Law Society outlined a range of problems with the principles of mandating the use of mediation. The issue is being discussed by the Civil Justice Council, which is consulting on the issue until this month. There is a feeling that mediation has yet to become culturally accepted in the legal profession and the organisation is looking at ways to change this. Full story: The Law Society Gazette

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Wednesday

20th December - Law News

2187th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Local elections in Catalonia this Thursday could decide the fate of the region's independence bid. Madrid says the secession movement has been based on what it calls 'post-truth'.


Focus of the day story: The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has again reached a highly unusual majority decision in the Leigh Day case, this time on the costs of the case. Two members of the tribunal decided that there should be no order for costs, but the third member argued that Leigh Day should be awarded 40% of its costs of the proceedings – although not the initial investigation. Full story: Legal Futures

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Tuesday

19th December - Law News

2186th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles archive focusing on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.

Today's video story: Congress General Secretary in-charge of Gujarat Ashok Gehlot said that under Amit Shah and Narendra Modi's leadership, there's an atmosphere of fear in the country, and Gujarat is also not immune to it. 


Focus of the day story: Murdered Iranian refugee Bijan Ebrahimi failed by police and council’s 'institutional racism'. Avon and Somerset Police whose officers told refugee ‘to go home’ when he attended station fearing for his life, a day before being killed, has offered an apology. Full story: The Independent

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